@hugh it has thankfully mostly passed now. Sleep cycle is still a bit screwed, but making sure I got some decent exercise and cutting back on caffeine has helped a lot. Winter always screws me over, during summer I’ll naturally want to go out for a walk in the evening most days, which just doesn’t happen when it’s dark and rainy.
Apparently some XBox influencer ran a *7 hour* crisis meeting with other influencers on Twitter today to discuss the terrible news that MS might publish a few games on PlayStation. Not confirmed, just a vague rumour. Some people desperately need more in their life than a games console.
@gsuberland I have a similar “don’t bother writing tests and setting up linting” rule for side projects now, for similar reasons. I’d be endlessly starting things and getting bored before actually building anything I intended to.
Threw a couple of peanuts to a crow that was hanging out on the grass outside my window earlier this morning. Now every ten minutes or so three of them rock up and shout at me until I chuck them some more.
@Edent if you get a smart plug which reports current this is relatively easy, either by detecting a spike in current and then starting a timer for however long rice takes, or detecting a spike followed by activating an automation which notifies when current drops back down to baseline for a few minutes. It’ll take a few tries to adjust for baseline and wait times if the cooker is (as someone else mentioned) cycling on and off.
I’m begging you iPlayer, stop asking me who’s watching. No one else lives here. No one else has ever signed in on this device. You can just assume it’s me.
Is their any video format worse than “YouTuber watches TikTok videos”? This question brought to you by my son’s terrible taste in YouTube.
@CuTEL at this rate you’ll be doing gigabit fibre to the tent at EMF 2042.
I am now one full week into the worst insomnia of my life. It appears I can be tired at any time other than when attempting to sleep. If anyone has tips on dealing with this they’d be greatly appreciated.
@jonty I could find no evidence of it happening, but that may just have been Google being confused by the search “pelican (bird) in a pelican case”.
@barnoid my entire flat is currently using 148W right now, and that includes several servers. It’s truly amazing how efficient things have got.
Periodic reminder:
Are you feeling dispirited by the software industry? Does every job you look at feel like another bullshit way of transferring working-class money into VC pockets?
YOU CAN LEAVE!
It will mean less money, but you can leave.
Whether it's as small a step as a janky university webmaster job, or as large a one as retraining, you can leave. I have been so much happier for leaving.
Always happy to talk through logistics of this with the curious.
The problem with testing a thing that involves SMS delivery is eventually you have to send real SMS messages, and that involves waiting an indeterminate amount of time for it to arrive.
Apple Music appears to support animated album covers and I'm deeply disappointed that they're just static animations when they could have made them full blown custom visualisers for each album.
Please send help. I’ve developed a crippling addiction to pretend power washing. My plan tonight was to have dinner and get an early night. What happened was to have dinner and then Powerwash a house on the Steam Deck while half watching YouTube videos.
@tess @CatherineFlick I’m so, so, tired of the entire economy being built on the assumption of infinite growth. Facebook having a fit when they stopped growing quite so fast because *most of the developed world already had an account* also springs to mind.
Turns out the 31st January 2024 is today, not a year’s time. Thankfully I realised that in time to pay the tax I owed without getting fined for late payment.